Did Frenchman Commit Suicide?
; AUCKLAND, Sat. (P.A.) Detectives are still working hard on the strange case of M. Jean Venot, French engineer, whose body was found at Piha Beach on Saturday last. No weapon had been found, but, in a clump of marram grass on a bank about 50 yards from where the body was found, the police have come across a felt hat and a pair of scissors, bolh believed to belong to Venot. i The hat was cut in two, and pieces t of the band had been cut out > On the evening of September 14 a • brown suitcase containing clothing ( ■ was found in Albeit Park and nanded • to the police. 1 Detectives hope by the time the inl quest is concluded to prove that M. I Venot took his own life. :
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Northern Advocate, 24 September 1949, Page 5
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